Texarkana Gazette front page from December 30, 2006, reporting the Execution of Saddam Hussein |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | WEHCO Media, Inc. |
| Publisher | Maurice "Buddy" King[1] |
| Editor | Les Minor |
| Founded | 1875 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 315 Pine St, Texarkana, Texas |
| Circulation | 30,508[2] |
| Official website | TexarkanaGazette.com |
The Texarkana Gazette is a daily newspaper founded in 1875 and currently owned by WEHCO Media, Inc. It serves Texarkana and surrounding areas.
It was acquired through the consolidation of several newspapers in 1933 through the efforts of the Iowa-born businessman Clyde E. Palmer. Palmer established a newspaper and radio station chain that reached into Hot Springs, Camden, Magnolia, and Stuttgart. In 1952, Palmer acquired the television station KCMC which became KTAL-TV in 1961. It serves both Texarkana and Shreveport. Through a reorganization in 1968, The Camden News in Camden, Arkansas, technically became the parent company for the Palmer newspapers, including the Texarkana Gazette.
Palmer's Texarkana Gazette still circulates in Bowie, Red River, Morris, Marion, Titus, and Cass counties in Texas and Miller, Little River, Hempstead, Nevada, Howard, Sevier, Pike and Columbia counties in Arkansas. Newspapers are also delivered into McCurtain County in the southeastern corner of Oklahoma and into northern Caddo Parish in Louisiana.
The Texarkana Gazette has more than 130 employees and some 120 independent carriers that deliver newspapers in a 60-mile radius. The average circulation is about 34,000 daily. The previous afternoon daily, the Texarkana Daily News, ceased publication in 1978. Rodger Dean Duncan, who later worked for two White House administrations and is now a prominent business consultant, was managing editor of the two Texarkana newspapers in the late 1960s.
Palmer determined that the key to newspaper success was (1) the readers, (2) the advertisers, (3) the employees, (4) the creditors, and (5) the stockholders, in that order.
The paper earned the coveted 2010 General Excellence award from the Arkansas Press Association competing against eight other large dailies including the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette which placed second. [3]
Editorial as of August 2011
- Editor: Les Minor
- Managing Editor: Ethel Channon
- Editorial Page Editor: Russell McDermott
- City Editor: Christy Busby
- Asst City Editor: Stevon Gamble
Writers
- Active Age: Lori Dunn
- Arts and Entertainment: Aaron Brand
- Business: Kristie Avery
- City: Brandy S. Chewning
- Police: Lareign Ward
- Courts: Lynn LaRowe
- Education: Marie Martin
- General Assignment: Greg Bischof
- General Assignment: Eric Nicholson
- General Assignment: Paige Alexander
- Health: Ashley Gardner
- Religion & Community: Rhonda Morrow
- Southwest Arkansas: Jim Williamson
Sports Writers
- Louie Avery, Sports Editor
- Josh Richert, Asst. Sports Editor
- Phil Sandoval
- Derek Oxford
Photography
- Chief Photographer: Evan Lewis
- Photographer: Christena Dowsett
- Photographer: Adam Sacasa
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